tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61971476972656273992018-11-05T02:08:01.614-05:00Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with NeedlesA writer's look at the quilting and quilt art community and anything else fabric.Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-33343977943089134512013-08-13T10:06:00.002-04:002013-08-13T10:06:27.512-04:00Review of novel: Small Town Lies by Charlie Hudson
We all have our own taste in books and read for a variety of
reasons – mostly to learn and grown and be entertained, I suspect. As one who
has reviewed books and made my living as a writer, I am perhaps more critical
than some. That said, AQS sent me a review copy of Small Town Lies written by
Charlie (Charlotte) Hudson.
Set in a small Georgia
town that is ‘stuck in time’ as the Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-44821589083323180402013-05-31T12:42:00.001-04:002013-05-31T12:51:10.364-04:00May is busting out in hexies!
Gladys Guyton Stump's Flower Garden Quilt
pieced in the 1960s.
May always seemed the month of anticipation and it lasted forever. When I was a student (and even as an adult), May signified the end of school. I loved learning and for the most part the school experience; but freedom called so loudy on the first day of May that I could not hear anything else.
Each day was one day closer to an Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-42102808997696806352013-05-14T09:57:00.000-04:002013-05-14T09:57:37.270-04:00Post Mother's Day Reminisce
Nick's First Grade photo
Our youngest son, Nick, all grown up, with his lovely wife Casandra
on his graduation from college
Mother's Day never quite lives up to expectations placed upon it by advertisers and those hawking their wares and trying to make consumers think that motherhood has anything to do with diamonds, flowers, chocolates or spa days.
﻿﻿
I'm in that no-man's land where my Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-21437575638355900312013-04-27T11:26:00.001-04:002013-04-27T11:26:18.734-04:00Another To-Do List But I Need a How-To List
Hunter Stars and Pinwheels using HSTs, my
latest obsession... And note the coffee theme. My
latest addiction....
I seem to spend more time making To-Do lists than actually doing the things on the lists.
This morning I decided that this is the list I will use. I will print it out and post it and look at it and take great delight in crossing things off of it. Major projects, not just -- Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-38831933164194304212013-04-23T18:05:00.004-04:002013-04-23T18:05:32.907-04:00Please Help: Chance to Create and Help Find a Cure for ALSSorry for the short notice. Just received this today:
Here's a Disappearing Nine-Patch Quilt I've been
working on to donate to Hopes and Dreams Quilts
HOPES and DREAMS QUILT CHALLENGE FOR ALS
MONTH-LONG QUILT SHOW AND CELEBRATION
OF MOMS IN MAY
We have some exciting news to share with you, and while it is quick notice, we think you might want to participate. The Hopes and Dreams Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-41734033861109540442013-04-17T20:26:00.003-04:002013-04-17T20:27:51.576-04:00Theo, Yes I Do Adore This Sweetie!
Note that dear Theo is helping me at the keyboard and is
pointing to a DVD made by Kathy McNeil regarding
applique. A really good and easy to follow DVD, by
the way!
Yes, I am rather obsessed with our new kitten. We haven't had a kitten in the house for almost a decade! So this is almost like being a grandma! He can do no wrong. (Almost). He comes running and jumps in my arms. He cuddles Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-64913173386861013062013-04-16T23:49:00.002-04:002013-04-16T23:49:34.407-04:00Theo and the mystery of the missing ball
Between my quilt adventures as a writer, fiction writer, and even making a few things of my own, I knit.
Here's a photo of my new great great grand niece Alexa wrapped in the blanket I knit for her and modeling the crocheted rose I made to decorate the gift box.
Tonight I crocheted.
It has been awhile, but with hook in hand, I carefully followed the directions to make a little single Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-34180879246442527642013-04-01T18:32:00.000-04:002013-04-01T18:32:41.056-04:00Half-Square-Triangle Star and Update on This and That
Hunter's Star made with half-square triangles
Are you still there?
I know I have taken forever to post to this blog, but here I am, trying to get back in the saddle again -- so to speak.
And SURPRISE! I actually made a quilt square of my own! As you can see it is the Hunter Star, but this one has a fun trick to it for those of us who appreciate success without too much challenge.
Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-59956891440949902232012-06-17T11:47:00.000-04:002012-06-17T11:47:11.051-04:00
Here's a photo of my Confetti Cats project
It has been way too long since I last posted to any of my blogs. I have kept in touch on Facebook and liked the short sweet way of connecting with stitching friends while I sorted out problems I had with the blogging process. It happens, now that my savvy technicians have prevailed, that I had an insidious virus that made it nearly impossible for meDawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-76492970395583877492012-01-28T17:48:00.000-05:002012-01-28T17:48:01.426-05:00Strange Thoughts and Golden Eras﻿
What would you carry with you
if you were homeless?
﻿ Strange thoughts tromping through my head today.
I'm still trying to find the hook for my Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles fiction series. All suggestions are welcome. This morning Hannah came to visit me. She's evidently a new character trying out for the cast of the first novel. I admit that I find her to be a very fun Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-62887810664911958522012-01-21T11:22:00.000-05:002012-01-21T11:22:38.420-05:00Of beeps and cats, slipcovers and courtesyOh dear God, save me from beeping things!
Have you seen that commercial on TV? I think it is about a car battery or a car, but it shows a guy on a ladder caught between beeping smoke alarms. Well, that was my night. I awoke about 1 a.m. to a kind of weak beeping noise (does that sound like the old lady in Christmas Vacation 'What's that squeaking sound?').
Could it be the door alarm?
Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-1969307536904793562012-01-16T14:58:00.001-05:002012-01-16T15:00:03.800-05:00Winner Announced for the latest Rayna Gillman bookI'm pleased to announce that Beth Mastin of Rumney, New Hampshire has won a copy of Rayna Gillman's latest book, "Create Your Own Free-form Quilts"
When she heard about her good luck, Beth responded, "Wow! What a great surprise!!! I've really been wanting to get this book, especially after one of my friends brought it to our last Fiber Divas meeting! Can't wait to tell them that I actually ownDawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-76895892410019306402012-01-10T14:24:00.000-05:002012-01-10T14:24:35.917-05:00"Quilts in the Attic" by Karen S. Musgrave --flaws and allA beautifully made book arrived at my house today. It is a complimentary copy of Karen. S. Musgrave's "Quilts in the Attic." This collection of 30 stories of great quilt discoveries includes the story of my fish and baskets quilt.
When I first saw Karen's call for stories, I submitted mine. I've written several times about this quilt myself and sent her a copy of one of my articles. I was Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-51097389550349275912011-12-29T20:15:00.002-05:002011-12-31T08:30:03.005-05:00Rayna and Ellen Anne fill their new books with innovative, creative spirit
Rayna Gillman's 'Scapes' quilt from her new book
People who love fabric seem to understand that we are all threads in this universal tapestry. We are all connected, some more tightly woven together than others. In the quilting community we are a tight-knit group with quilts as our common thread.
Learn to make beautiful flowers like
this one featured in Ellen Anne Eddy's quilt
It has been myDawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-14890579268284292312011-10-06T11:00:00.000-04:002011-10-06T11:00:08.188-04:00Subversive Stitchers Challenge for the Quilts and Dreams Challenge
A 1600 Quilt
(photo from Heirloom Creations blog site).
Seems like a symptom of 'subversive' people is that we march to our own drum, are often loners, not joiners, and like to do things in our own time, following our own way. So I don't organize things or urge you to join in projects.
BUT I have just received an interesting book from American Quilter's Society (AQS) that has finally Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-55828264746265223542011-10-04T19:40:00.000-04:002011-10-04T19:40:18.581-04:00Quilt Exhibit and Sales Support ALS ResearchHandmade Quilts For Sale to support ALS research through a FREE quilt exhibit sponsored by Hopes and Dreams Quilts 4 a Cure!
The quilt exhibit is held in conjunction with the JT Walk and Beach Party to raise funds for Hopes & Dream Quilts 4 a Cure. Kathy Thompson, CEO of Quilters Dream Batting, knows the heartbreak and frustration of the ALS disease. Her son Josh was cut down in the prime of Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-23180044442802941282011-09-27T14:32:00.001-04:002011-09-27T14:45:24.991-04:00Quilt Wars
Viewer's Choice: Innocence by Hollis Chatelain
of Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA
For seventy-two minutes, give or take, I watched "Stitched: the film" which is advertised as a fun-filled documentary following three quilt artists as they prepare their entries in Houston's International Quilt Festival.
It was good to see Hollis Chatelain and Caryl Bryer Fallert again, to watch them at Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-84520057534814814072011-09-23T09:54:00.001-04:002011-09-23T12:26:15.044-04:00Think before You Quote – Even in Comments
Posted on September 11, 2011 by Pat Irwin (permission granted to repost).
If you create content – or even post comments in blogs – and include quotes from someone else – be ware.
Although this particular company may well be on its last legs, there may be others out there.
It’s an ugly 18-month saga that, fortunately, seems to be coming to a close.
The players:
Righthaven LLC, a Las Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-55287060216496052822011-09-19T10:42:00.001-04:002011-09-19T10:46:12.386-04:00Ignorance Message QuiltsYou can be sincere and still be stupid. --Charles F. Kettering
It all began with the radio this morning. My husband loves oldies music and has found one radio station in all of the world that plays it the way he likes it. So we awaken to this station every morning. The problem is that there is this DJ who fashions himself an expert on politics. He is not. HE IS NOT!
Today, this disk spinner Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-83410521661233853612011-09-17T20:47:00.000-04:002011-09-17T20:47:48.650-04:00Little Projects Carry Big Impact﻿
Several pillows I have made plus the
blue ribbon embroidery pillow that I dream of making, Note
the angel pillow in the foreground. It is the prototype using
Linda Goodmon Emery's design.
﻿ It seemed that my family, even extended family, was complete before I was born. I came late, born four years after my cousins; seven years after my brother. An after thought always trying to catch up. Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-55124680528286017882011-02-12T16:31:00.011-05:002011-02-14T10:50:11.300-05:00Urban Art: Graffiti Quilts and Fabric
Summer in the City by Hilary Gooding
I recently watched via Netflix, part of a documentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop," about street art. It fascinated me. The art as well as the lifestyle and the attitudes that drive these artists to create on public walls, signs, sidewalks, trucks, trains.... And they are so good with spray paint.
If Susan Shie hadn't found fabric, she might be a Street Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-44276636593281783672011-02-03T07:10:00.000-05:002011-02-03T07:10:13.834-05:00We Have a Winner!Thank you to all who entered and for frequenting Subversive Stitchers blog and Facebook pages.
We have a winner!!!
Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles and Dragon Threads Publishing are pleased to announce that we have a winner.
Stacy West of South Florida is the lucky winner of Noriko Endo's "Confetti Landscapes" book. To get better acquainted with Stacy, visit her lovely website Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-53392861657199825192011-01-24T20:18:00.001-05:002011-01-26T07:26:25.856-05:00Melanie Needs Some Subversive Stitcher Attitude!Everyone has a burden to bear, whether it is divorce, weird relatives, budgets that won't balance or as in Mellie Testa's case -- the Big C!
She's such a giver and such a gifted artist that I just must point you to her blog. Her dear friend is speaking for her as she tries to wrap her head around the latest chapter in her life.
If you feel moved to help Mellie through this minefield she facesDawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-15462974967843536202011-01-11T13:08:00.000-05:002011-01-11T13:08:43.186-05:00My View: A Few Books To Pique Your Creativity and a Giveaway!It is not even the Ides of January and I'm feeling the overload! How about you? Hopefully your overload is in creativity and inspiration. I'm afraid my good intentions evaporated before the mists of that first January morning dissipated. It seems that I am slogging through this new year watching British mysteries and period pieces and spouting words like 'slogging' and 'bloody hell.' I'm even Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com63tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197147697265627399.post-65107467439708442622010-12-24T10:40:00.000-05:002010-12-24T10:40:50.576-05:00Missing in Action
Confetti Cats inspired by Teri Stegmiller's cats quilt
I owe you all an apology for being so slow to post this year and especially this past month.
As many of you know Mom died on Dec. 3. Although she was 98 and had been 'herself' through every inch of her life, it was so hard to let her go, especially since I hadn't been able to be with her these past six years.
We always thought we'd be Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18419344655830579965noreply@blogger.com8